Database Programming Languages

Invited Contributions.- CQL: A Language for Continuous Queries over Streams and Relations.- XPath Query Processing.- Static Analysis.- Satisfiability of XPath Expressions.- Containment of Relational Queries with Annotation Propagation.- Avoiding Unnecessary Ordering Operations in XPath.- Transactions.- Consistency of Java Transactions.- Integrating Database and Programming Language Constraints.- A Unifying Semantics for Active Databases Using Non-Markovian Theories of Actions.- Modeling Data and Services.- Modelling Dynamic Web Data.- Semantics of Objectified XML Constraints.- M2ORM2: A Model for the Transparent Management of Relationally Persistent Objects.- Novel Applications of XML and XQuery.- Using XQuery for Flat-File Based Scientific Datasets.- A Query Algebra for Fragmented XML Stream Data.- XML Processing and Validation.- Updates and Incremental Validation of XML Documents.- Attribute Grammars for Scalable Query Processing on XML Streams.- A General Framework for Estimating XML Query Cardinality.

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